FileMinimizer Pictures

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Editors' Review

Uploading images is to Net newbies what parallel parking is to new drivers: it takes a lot of trial and error to get it right. And Megabyte-size snapshots hog Facebook bandwidth. Fileminimizer Pictures 3 from Balesio is a free tool that promises to help solve both issues. It resizes image files by up to 98 percent without zipping and without sacrificing quality. Its Facebook Uploader Module also makes it easy to post your pictures on Facebook.

Fileminimizer's interface is businesslike but attractive, with subtle but effective use of color and highlighting to differentiate the various icons and controls. Most users should have no trouble getting started, beginning with the descriptive control icons: Open Files, Optimize Files, Pack and Go, and Search Files. If you get stuck, the Web-based Help file answers most common questions. We started by adding a 1MB image and selecting Standard Compression. Fileminimizer quickly resized the file to .11 MB, an impressive 87.8 percent reduction. The new image appeared smaller than the old one but still very large and, most important, equal in quality. The Upload to Facebook option was just as straightforward, triggering a series of log-in and permission pop-ups that let us easily post the image to our page. There's also an option to stay logged in to Fileminimizer. The Web/E-Mail Compression level reduced file size even more to .05 MB. We could click to e-mail or delete any file in the queue, too. Fileminimizer also worked well with batches of images. Using the Low/Print Compression option and The Pack and Go button, which automatically selects all images in a folder, it was just as easy to handle multiple images as it was a single image.

Fileminimizer Pictures 3 proved an easy and effective tool for resizing, posting, and sending images, but its special emphasis on uploading images to Facebook makes it particularly valuable. It's free, too, which makes it perfect for recommending to folks who need a little help with images.

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Publisher's Description

Now you can upload and share your over sized photos and images easily online on Facebook. With FILEminimizer Pictures 3's automatic Facebook upload feature you will never waste time again waiting for your large photos to be uploaded or sent via email. This free software reduces, without zipping, the size of your images and photos by up to 98%, that is a 3.0 MB photo can be reduced down to 0.2 MB or even less. As a result, the optimized images can easily be sent via email and shared on social networks and photo sharing sites like Flickr. FileMinimizer Pictures uses balesio's native format optimization technology which preserves the original image format. After compression, photos and images remain in the original file format and are still just as beautiful as before, only 25x smaller in size.

- Does what it says, file size significantly reduced.
- Simple program to use.
- Lots of customizing options on the 'Settings for Images' tab under the main program settings (.i.e. retain original pixel size, preserve/create lossless format, retain original format).

Cons

- Option to replace original file (i.e. no duplicate file created) only available on paid Server Version.
- Only able to reduce file size of BMP and TIFF by allowing image to be re-sized or converted to JPG/PNG.
- Conversion process slower when creating/retaining lossless quality.
- Batch processing limited to 500 files at a time.

Summary

The program does what it says it will do and is straight-forward and easy to use. It offers a lot of options to convert/preserve formats and tweak image size/quality. I know that there are other programs that can compress JPGs a little more without compromising quality, but you have to pay for them. The conversion process seemed pretty quick, about 1-2 seconds per file when using the basic conversion options on JPGs. However, it was significantly slower (maybe 4-5 seconds each) when I started tweaking the options to create/retain lossless quality files. I deducted one star because you have to pay for the Server Version in order to convert the files in place and avoid creating a duplicate file and the 500 files at a time limit. I only tested it on JPEG, BMP, PNG, and TIFF, not GIF or EMF files.

Overall, I would say this is an excellent program to help save space or prep files for email/web/on-screen use and a good [free] program for retaining high quality images.

Automatically resizes, compresses, and/or crops images almost instantaneously while still maintaining quality. Requires very little input or configuration from the user, but additional options are available for those who want to tweak a bit.

Cons

None that I have been able to find.

Summary

Excellent, easy-to-use software. It's better than many of the commercial programs out there. Perfect for beginners and experienced users alike.

good if want to send photos via e-mail or upload...easy to use..fast processing,,

Cons

perhaps..instead of minizing file...it will be super if can minize whole folder .

Summary

Try it..u love it,,make sending photos like a freeze...

Updated on Jan 12, 2011

i have not relation what so ever with this product or their companies...but i want to comment again...resize in mintues/user friendly/e-mail features/good resized quality/and FREEE.....i used it to resized many photos...cannot find a better software then this...

Great tool for speeding up load time of your web pages. I spent ages going thru each individual image on my site, after someone suggested using P'shop, "save for web" option. I had to do it all again when I found this, but it was worth it.

Hi Deemart,
The Pack&Go function works over the MAPI interface. Over this interface the application hands over the data to the operating system, which will send it to the appropriate e-mailing software. If your e-mailing software does not support this MAPI interface, you will get an error message.
Please check if your e-mail program supports this interface. Outlook Express does. Then check also if the software is assigned as default e-mail program over the Internet Options.

It is a small program with no fluff. I do website work and e-mail marketing. When I use a picture, maybe only a couple of times a week, this program is perfect. It gives me the picture with the small bandwidth usage. I like it just like it is.

Cons

Some users might want a "skin" on this program. I however really don't like those things. I want a menu and a button.

Summary

I don't have heavy use for graphics conversions so this little guy is perfect for me. It does exactly what it promises!

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